>>> 1. I recently picked up a 486dx2/50 based workstation base, with
>>> no expansion slots, and a networking connector on the back
>>> panel that is clearly wired directly to the motherboard. It's
>>> not a big system - 8M of RAM and a 430M hard drive - but would
>>> be more than sufficient for a print server, which is what I
>>> want it for.
> I'd just try every 10Mbit Ethernet module (with a variety of IO
> settings) to see if one finds it. That's what I've done with
> mistery cards (most turned out NE2000 clones, BTW; some with
> screwy IO ranges).
I've since created a network kitchen sink 2.2.10 kernel (one with ALL
of the network drivers hard compiled in), and the driver that accepts
and id's the card is...
Q> AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support
...but, for some reason, the same driver in RedHat 6.0 doesn't work.
Any clues here?
Best wishes from Riley.
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| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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